Wolf Hunting: Conflict Between Recreational Hunters and Activists
Sawn-off hunting stands, nails in car tyres — animal rights activists set deadly traps for recreational hunters.
Dangerous Confrontation in Germany
The growing tension between recreational hunters and animal rights activists has led to Germany a dangerous confrontation.
The animal rights activists, frustrated by the shooting permits issued for the wolf, have resorted to militant means to protect wolves. This escalation is complicating the situation for all parties involved, writes Fokus Online.
Recreational Hunters Living in Fear
Recreational hunters are facing a difficult decision. On the one hand, they want to support farmers and sheep breeders whose herds are threatened by wolf attacks. On the other hand, they are also concerned about their own safety. Acts of violence such as setting fire to hunting stands or placing nails on forest paths are causing recreational hunters to live in fear and terror.
Livestock protection is not enough
It is clear that the current livestock protection measures are insufficient to protect the animals. Wolves are intelligent and learn quickly. Once they have learned how to access easy prey, they repeat this behaviour time and again. This leads to a rising number of kills and to even more conflicts between the various interest groups.
Dossier: The Wolf in Switzerland: Facts, Politics and the Limits of Hunting
More on the subject of recreational hunting: In our dossiers on the criticism of recreational hunting gather fact-checks, analyses and background reports. What the research says about this is shown by Hunting fact-checked: the state of research.
The position of IG Wild beim Wild: IG Wild beim Wild rejects recreational hunting. Our model is the canton of Geneva, which has managed without recreational hunting since 1974: without hunting seasons, without hunting dogs, without driven hunts, without high seats, without the animal cruelty and crime that go hand in hand with hunting season elsewhere. What has worked there for over fifty years disproves every position paper by JagdSchweiz. An association that bases its policy on claims it refutes in its own documents is not a professional organisation, but a factory for misinformation.
